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Show n( '1 RMmmm Brent Olson By It's been a busy year for the Utah Museum cf Fine Arts. La:t June, it entered its new home, the lovely and larger Maroa and John Price Museum Building. Since then, UMf A has hosted dozens of Rodin bronzes, dresses worn by Princess Diana and Grecian works depicting ancient athletes, including one of less than 20 extant Grecian bronze sculp- tures. And in its free time, the museum also organized several smaller exhibitions, selected a new executive director, commemorated the life of its founding director, the late Frank Sanguinetti and hosted several large receptions during the Olympics. So now, after all that hustle and bustle, the museum finally has a chance to sit back and program its exhibitions at a more deliberate pace. The result? number of intelligently designed exhibitions drawn primarily from the permanent collec-tio- a but augmented by a few e exceptional works on the end of March, "Writ Large: Works by Contemporary Utah Artists" has occupied the museum's great hall. The exhibit features large works by a number of Utah's major modern artists, including lee De ffeba.cn arid Doug A ,i go and see what speaks to you and what doesn't, you may be surprised While not a formal exhibition, John and Tom Bloomberg have loaned several paintings by major western artists to UMFA, including several works by Maynard Dixon that will be on display for the summer in the museum's boardroom. In addition to paintings of the West, photographs of the West or at least of one the West's most prominent features result "Art Since the The ( 4 i Mid-Twentie- th Century: A Politicized Culture," consists primarily of works that have not previously been displayed in the new building. While I will miss some of the works no longer up, the six vivid Andy Warhol prints on loan from Jonathan and Leanne Freedman go a long way to making things bet- ter. The exhibit also features works by Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell are currently and Jasper Johns people who you should have heard of, or should at least pretend you've heard of. In short, same great museum new great art Why not skip work and visit right now? The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is open seven days a week, 10 clttl-- s on display on the second floor in corridor. The the northern-westerexhibition, "Photographs of the Great Salt Lake," presents different photographers' takes on the lake and its environs. And rest assured, a mandatory picture of Robert Smith son's Spiral n Jetty is there. After the Getty antiquities exhibit left the Phyllis Wattis gallery, the museum took the opportunity to completely revise its gallery devoted to modern art You will Indeed find landscape paintings of the West when you venture Into the Utah Museum of Fine Art, which Is showcasing Its collection. noon-- p.m. p.m. Monday-Friday- , Web site is full Its Saturday, Sunday. at stuff of helpful $ . www.utah.eduumfa brentored-mag.co- m loan-Sinc- V Snow. Now, to be absolutely honest, I've visited this exhibition several times and I always spend most of my time looking at just two or three works because I'm pretty if lfi 11 i apathetic about the rest Of course, there's no accounting for individual taste, especially in modern art perhaps you'D love all the works or none of them so n n3f?f Jt Li U sss0 -- BY Bobbi Parry a (S After 2 the funeral, Sebastian fires his therapist Hillary, arid Eemadette's husband Kip decides to give up his career as a dentist in crder to pursue painting. Soon after-.'rdEemadette discovers she is pregnant. It's a play filled with violence one character stabs herself in the hand with a letter opener and another gets his throat slit), obsession, and loneliness. And it's funny. "The dialogue is magnificent Herrscher said. "Silver doesn't allow any of the violence or dramatic moments to become overly emotionally involved." Silver maintains his emotional distance until the very end, when his characters become fully realized as they resolve their problems. Herrscher also works to keep that distance, making the elements cf his pr. oduction completely surreal "You can't get bogged down in the reality cf the production" or the play' would sink in its own emotional weight he said. Although the situations must be ridiculous, the problems cf the characters are not Sebastian makes five "biggest Jfumey iove-stro- ck be term "40 dollars and a new suit" refers to the provisions. U given a newly freed slave after the Civil War. It's also the title of the second act of Nicky Silver's "Raised in Captivity and a very good example of how the play works. No one in the play has ever been held captive (as a slave or otherwise), it's set in modern-da- y (not 19th century) New York, and the first act is entitled "Crumbs which also apparently has absolutely nothing to do with anything. The University of Utah's Lab Theatre will present a production of the play, directed by Erick Herrscher, next week1 1 end. "Raised in Captivity'' is the story of Eemadette Dixon and Sebastian Eliss, twins reunited at their mother's funeral (she was killed by her shower head) after many years of separation. Time his net healed the wounds of their nlity-'r.il.'-Ke is still convinced she is insane, srid within five minutes of seeing him, the demands to hear 5 tthir s? awful stout his life. p. .$ J june 5, 2002 1 EED Xa&zlne -, ' f mmi 1 C x as he redisccwrs hcv 10 zr.zlz hurrsn ccrjrxecticr.s. 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